The Round-Up Volume 1, Issue 8: Wedding Bells, Summer Sunshine and The Round Up! - MediaBizBlogger Cory Treffiletti

Hello again and welcome to this week39s edition of The Round Up It39s been a few weeks since our last edition because our editor yours truly took off for a couple weeks to get married and go on honeymoon but now we39re back and ready to go It39s amazing how a few days on the beach will reenergize your spirit and recharge your batteries Of course you don39t subscribe to the Digital Influentials to hear about me You subscribe to hear about the new and exciting companies we39ve uncovered in the last few weeks of our digital marketing excursions Shall weamp8230Gaming is always a hot topic It39s funny because gaming is consistently brought up as an emerging media platform of interest for marketers and advertisers but it39s rarely one that gets tested The perception seems to be that getting into gaming is tedious takes a long time and a lot of new creative Sooo you can only imagine how hard it must be to get into mobile gaming Well GREYSTRIPE has taken care of that These guys have some great tools and platforms for allowing advertisers especially brand advertisers to get into mobile gaming I have to honest in saying that I haven39t used them myself but I was referred to their company and they appear very strong and to have built a sustainable businessGaming is a huge part of popular culture but there are many other components that make up the popular culture landscape That39s where FANPOP comes in I can39t say exactly how you would categorize their business but it39s sort of a social community merged with a search engine As is my typical path the first search query I ran was amp8220Pearl Jamamp8221 and up came a bunch of surveys links and fun information about the worldamp8217s greatest band donamp8217t fight it FanPop is billed as a network of fan clubs but when you lift up the hood thereamp8217s a little more in the engine than you wouldamp8217ve originally thought It might have a hemiFinding a way to harness the power of popular culture to drive business growth is the goal of every marketer If you tap into the zeitgeist you can build a successful business Thatamp8217s how I came across YODLEE Yodlee is that one step beyond your personal online banking It aggregates together all your accounts makes it easy to create new ones and manage money between the accounts and build a stronger personal financial management system In the economy we see today every consumer should be finding more and better ways to manage their money for the long term and Yodlee may just be that toolAs we get into financial management we canamp8217t overlook Real Estate right Thatamp8217s where I found ROOST Iamp8216ve mentioned some real estate sites before but this one has a great interface and itamp8217s updated very regularly so the information is relevant as you look for a place to live or just determine the value of your own home Of course if you live in an area where home prices are dropping the information you find may not be enjoyable Donamp8217t blame Roost Itamp8217s not their faultAnd last but not least we discovered a new way to share information with others in a secure private manner Itamp8217s called DROPIO We canamp8217t figure out yet what the business model is but you can share any type of file with another person through a series of amp8220dropsamp8221 that you create Theyamp8217re not searchable and they cannot be uncovered in any other way Itamp8217s rare that we see a basic service online with no hooks or gimmicks so we figured you had know about it nowThatamp8217s it for this weekamp8217s edition As always if you have something you see and think we should know about it please drop me a note at infocatalystsfcom and let me know or email on the Facebook pageTalk to you in 2Cory Treffiletti ampamp The Digital InfluentialshttpwwwdigitalinfluentialscomFind us on Facebook at The Digital Influentials

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